old. Nearly all archæologists of to-day belong to the practical school and there are scarcely a half dozen representatives of the old school. It is the office of this new school to explore, to preserve specimens properly recorded in fire-proof buildings, to compare the types of man's handicraft of one section of the country with those of another, to survey and photograph and study the enclosures, fortifications, village sites and tumuli of ancient man of both the Americas. Its work is covered by the term anthropology, the study of man.

This Society confines its work largely to the pre-historic tribes of Ohio and the Ohio Indians, and has a field unequaled by that of any other section of America. It should remember in projecting its important work among the ruins of past ages to exhibit the careful, analytical, scientific spirit and avoid anything which savors of charlatanism. It can do no better than follow the work of such men as Brinton, Putnam and Holmes.

To understand the daily life of pre-Columbian man in Ohio one only requires extensive field work, large excavation and careful comparison to learn facts which are not apparent from the surface and could never be known by regarding these monuments externally.

Having this important and interesting field, it should be explored and studied, preserving the relics of our predecessors. The subject of archæology is not dry and dull, and he urged its study upon the people of Ohio.

Dr. W. E. Moore responded in regard to the "Value of Personal History," as follows:

Our work is not confined to archæology, important as that is, and is becoming more and more important as time and vandalism is fast destroying the sources of our scientific knowledge in the works of the pre-historic races.

We are also a historic society, and here our aim is not so much to collect the histories, especially of our own State and of the Northwest Territory, which are already written, as to collect and preserve the sources of such histories as are yet to be written. These sources are to be sought and found in the homes of our people in the shape of letters, diaries and journals of the early settlers and their descendants. They are to be gathered

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from the newspapers cotemporary with the events they narrate. They are to be looked for in historical addresses and sermons, such as were suggested by the Centennial of 1876, of which there are many hundreds, if not thousands, lying in drawers and closets awaiting the annual besom of house-cleaning, if not rescued and preserved by some such agency as ours. There may be many bushels of chaff, but through these are scattered many . grains of golden wheat which the future historian will prize as fixing some date, or identifying some names, or explaining the connection of isolated facts.

The recent revival in our country of genealogical research and family histories is significant of the interest taken by our people in tracing the rivulets and streams which, coming down from the mist-covered mountains, unite their hundreds of rills in the stream which flows at their feet and which flows on, uniting and commingling with other streams, toward the ocean of a common humanity which holds in its bosom every drop which has fallen in the ages past. We want that those who come after us, in our own line, shall be able to trace the converging streams of their descent to those whose fidelity to duty, to God and man, gave their tribute to the sum of religion, patriotism, good government and education and freedom, which is the heritage of Ohio, derived ultimately from Anglo-Saxon, Teuton, Huguenot -through England, old and new, Scotland, Ireland Holland and France.

We want to gather, collate and preserve these rills or even drops of history which may add to our knowledge of our own people, and show the future historian of Ohio why she has been so blessed of God with great and good men and women, and why she has so prospered in material wealth. "There were brave men before Agamemnon," but their memory has perished because they lacked a historian.

The speeches were fittingly closed by a soprano solo entitled "The old Buckeye State," rendered by Mrs. J. F. McNeil

HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

LIFE MEMBBRS.

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SKETCHES OF LIFE MEMBERS.*

ANDERSON, JAMES HOUSE.- Born March 16, 1833, at Marion O. Son of Judge Thomas Jefferson Anderson and Nancy Dunlevy. Educated in public schools and the Marion Academy, and Ohio Wesleyan University. Graduated from law department of the Cincinnati College in 1854; immediately began practice. Elected Mayor of Marion in 1855, and later Prosecuting Attorney of the county. Married in 1856 to Princess A. Miller. Appointed, March, 1865, by President Lincoln, United States Consul at Hamburg. In 1878, appointed by Governor Bishop Trustee of Ohio State University. Member of Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain. Residence, Columbus, O.

ANDREWS, JOHN W.-Philanthropist and jurist. Law partner of Judge Joseph R. Swan. He was a member of the thirty-seventh Ohio Legislature, and for many years President of the Ohio State Board of Charities. President of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Public Library from the date of its organization in 1872, until 1890. Established the Andrews Alcove in said library in memory of his deceased son, John W. Andrews, jr. Was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Starling Medical College, the Trustees being selected in 1848, by Lynn Starling, founder of the institution. Died at Englewood, N. J., October 29, 1893.

ARNETT, BENJAMIN WILLIAM, D. D.- Born March 6, 1838, at Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa. He was licensed to preach March 30, 1865, by Rev. J. D. S. Hall, of the Baltimore Conference, and preached his first sermon April 9, 1865, at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C. Was appointed to Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O., April 19, 1867; received certificate to teach school December 19, 1868, and until 1871 taught school part of the time in addition to his pastoral work. Was a member of the National Equal Rights League, Syracuse, N. Y., 1864, Frederick Douglass, President; and also of the Equal Rights convention held at Cleveland, O. In 1863 he was appointed recruiting agent by George L. Stearns, Assistant Adjutant General United States Volunteers. In June, 1865, organized

*It was intended to publish sketches of all the life members in this volume. Only those are herewith printed that were received in time for publication.